June 26, 2007
PicLens Almost Fixes Slideshows
PicLens is a plug-in for Safari and Firefox that adds full screen slideshows to a variety of popular online photo sharing sites. This is a great idea. The problem is, it doesn’t work very well.
I installed the plugin and went straight to the photo sharing site that most of my friends use, Smugmug. Piclens doesn’t work with Smugmug because they only support a list of six specific sites or any website using auto-discoverable Media RSS feeds. I couldn’t find any photo sharing site or software package using Media RSS, though all of the sites I checked are publishing some form of RSS feeds with image URLs.
